Word: flashings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this is done, one will like George O'Donnell's poem "Evening to Morning" for its simple but convincing imagery; he will think Laughlin's own poetry too simple, too bare. Because of its vivid picture, like a penetrating flash, "Mannikin," by Francis Fergusson, has strong appeal. On the other hand, one used to conventional poetry will tire of playing anagrams with the poems of Cummings; he will laugh at Robert Fitzgerald's surrealism, which Laughlin explains as the principle of redefinition by incongruity...
...present there is every reason for the Crimson squad to be overconfident. The Yale "News" quotes Bob Kiphuth, Yale coach, as saying that Harvard has the best swim squad in the East this year. The metropolitan newspapers frequently flash large headlines acclaiming Harvard as possibly the strongest team in the country. Whether these and other optimistic predictions are based on fact can be proved only in the tank for the next few Saturdays...
This week an Associated Press correspondent "somewhere in the Yangtze Valley" with Generalissimo & Mme Chiang was permitted to flash that influenza had bedded the Wife of the Year, quoted the Man of the Year as saying: "Tell America to have complete confidence in us. The tide of battle is turning and victory eventually will be ours...
Captain Emerson and Hinton, yardling flash, will handle the downhill cross country, and jumping events...
...repeal a law every day of his term in office Here was a public display of a widely held opinion which is expressed in Middletown by "There are too dammed many laws in this country." Governor Quinn, the Wizard of West Warwick and Walter O'Hara, the Pawtucket Flash concur in this opinion, for according to Professor Chafee these two bulls have locked horns in, of all places, the china shop of the legal system, and they have broken most of the china...